Trump can't blame Dems for criminal case because most witnesses are insiders: former prosecutor

Donald Trump won't be able to take his usual route of blaming Democrats in his upcoming criminal trial for handling of classified documents because the primary witnesses in the indictment are from the former president's inner circle, a former federal prosecutor said Friday night.

Former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner appeared on MSNBC to discuss Trump's criminal case, and was asked about the court order limiting Trump from discussing the case with his co-defendant, Walt Nauta, and other witnesses close to him. Kirschner said such an order would likely be unenforceable, but pointed out that those witnesses would be key to crushing Trump's favorite defense.

"Who's going to report a violation of that? Not Walt, not Donald. So I wonder the efficacy of a court order or prohibition like that," he said, adding that there was a separate "great point about the witnesses who we saw in the indictment."

"They weren't named, but they were identified. Some of the most sharply incriminating witnesses against Donald Trump are who? Trump lawyer number one, Trump lawyer number two, Trump lawyer number three, Trump employee number one, number two," said Kirschner during his Friday appearance on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell. "Donald Trump loves to complain that the people who are always going after him are an angry group of Democrats. Well you know what? he's not going to have that complaint available to him at his criminal trial because it's going to be his lawyers and former lawyers, his employees, his former employees, who are providing the lion's share of the incriminating information. Boy, that makes it very tough to mount a defense that all the prosecution witnesses are out to get him."

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